The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-06-19
GOSSIP ABOUT THE BOXERS.
THE TERRIFIC PUMMELITNG THAT
MITCHELL RECEITED.
Carney had More Science and Was la better
Condition than Ritcheii-Wiii Sullivan
do Abroad this Fall f-Talk OF tho Ring.


Condition than RiteheiI-wiii Sullivan
do Abroad this Fail f-Taik OF tho Ring.
It never rains but II pours. After spoil
OF comparative inactivity tho week wound up
with three rafting fights, and ono Of thom de-
cided. for tho time being ut least, the light
weight championship OF America. Jem
Carney proves to DO anything but as stale
man as his opponents have reported him. He
has q cnst-iron mug, and 1t Is very dcceiving.
Then. again, II turns out that Jimmy Mitchell
Ia not nearly SO young rs was represented.
Hehas been twenty-five for three years. 80 1t
appears, and II Carney, after the fashion Of
most English fighters, has lived pretty rapidly.
Mitchell has been no anchorlte. Jimmy
proved that he was q dead game man-thore
mover was doubt on that score-but what he
doesn't know about scientific fighting would
make a book as big as the city directory.
/ once saw Billy Frazier not only hold his
level In a four-round contest In Arthur Cham
bcrss ring, but. to my mind. best him n shade
In the hitting. Last winter he mot Jack Nc
Auliffe in n four-round contest ut tho ComiQue
in Philadelphia. Jack at the time had lame
hand, as he had dislocated his right thumb on
Billy Frazier's head but q few nights before,
who SGT Il advised him not even to spar with It.
let alone, fight; McAuliffe ,disregarded the
S %b. flvfG and erpsea T. S he h
Nc Haliiie reSdiIy ' got away from his rssRes
FOUR rouns Fad s SO decidedly @ The best Of the
bout that made up my mind that, II they ever
MeAnis ne Void On win almost as e oer rscin
friends say, with hands down, o,,
pfasn 3, T Ss o 5p on tRa9
vas y the better man Of the two in point q con;
Carney altogether. Said well-known sport
Ing man 10 me Yesterday after the liaht: ,
yom Mace. He fought mainly at i Miteseiis
pssas m INK r Ss5 Ssds Finn On
s1 hsye S pe@sb d A. Saa sstdPf
o darney ths
%e anef hm msds
Jimmy trot around until he tired him IN the
bsss sna h %tb h at him and did as
oa Ts ssSd Il Of the opno1 0 that
Carney win lind McAliffo far drerent boxer
than the man he has just conquered, The talk
eass H. al When ss IN h@
few weeks ago he was hog fat Let him train
down to 1888 pounds. He will have to come. up
and face the musc for hear that
not disposed to haggle 30 much over few
pounds OF beef as he was when they were
match making before.
Patsy Weary has scored another. quick VIC
tory. this time ut Grand Rapids, Mich, where
h. hei fought five rounds with Patsy Carroll On
padded gloves for $500. A Louisville gentle-
man, now in this city, who saw OLeary fight
Tommy Warren near that city. says that
whenever they meet. warren Is as cunning
EafT little bit, and whenever no gets ii good
that he has had tho worst OF It, but he'll get out
Of 1t by fouling his man. He would sooner lose
that way. for 1t will give him a chance to claim
that he lost by the referee being against him"
The ahsy are FIN naEM n hot FER e hs
Spider, In Boston. 1t looks as though he would
have to give Johnny Murphy or Johnny Havln
q 60. or labor under tho suspicion that ho
thinks them too good for him.
Somehow or other don't think ohm L. Sui
ya T 60 EngSnndh ths fan after The
again but hear that Sheedy, has doubts, and
thnt he can avoid. The last time I
talked with, him on the, subject he, said:
81 wouldn't have Sullivan licked for
MT for all the c9aq
will back him against any man In the world
for every dollar can raise. but I will have to
be thoroughly satisfied that he Is oil right be-
fore let him fight. If he fights against my
wishes will never speak to him again as long
Johns big champion belt is rapidly approach
ing completion and when 1t Is presented to
him we shall doubtless learn Just what his fu-
ture flstfc Intentions are. Meanwhile the cham.
pionship Of America Is in allegiance.